#wtf formatting

[unwiltingblossom]

One of my biggest pet peeves about Jumin and his route is how PEOPLE DELIBERATELY MISCONSTRUE IT COMPLETELY

NUMBER ONE: Jumin’s bad end 2 is a completely consensual BDSM relationship. It might not be a healthy or well executed one, but it is NOT Jumin kidnapping you. Not ONLY does the MC have to ask him for this, and explicitly say what she wants from him, not only does Jumin then respond with “as long as you desire this”, but you have to spend days softening him up to this by outrageously seducing him and asking to be caged/kept forever.  and it kind of makes me mad people say this like a criticism while also squeeing over Unknown actually kidnapping you. he’s not taking you to a utopia of orgies and sex, he’s taking you to be tortured until you’re brainwashed. Jumin is literally keeping you at your request in the lap of luxury with wild loving sex as long as you desire it - and only as long as you want it.

NUMBER TWO: JUMIN DOES NOT MOTHER! FLIPPING!! KIDNAP THE MC!!!

The MC chooses!!!! to go!!! to Jumin’s place!! And then she chooses to stay! He begs and pleads for her not to leave, but aside from a brief moment of panic where he’s like “KABEDON!” he doesn’t actually force her to stay. There’s no dialog that I recall where he is like “The security won’t let you leave the building no matter what you do” (and even if he did make such a ludicrous order, why would the security obey this??) - What actually happens is that MC arrives and soothes Jumin’s panic over Sarah and Glam’s schemes, resulting in him falling even harder for MC than before. Then Elizabeth disappears (it’s never fully explained how, but obviously she’s grabbed by the hacker purposefully to set him off - which is basically what he was afraid Sarah would do) and Jumin actually rightfully panics in fear that after losing everything else dear to him, he might lose the MC if she leaves his influence.

Recall the reason Jumin is afraid is because all of the RFA members are in danger, and all of them have a 24/7 guard. MC does not, because her location is secret. And we know from previous routes that the only way to save her when (not even really ‘if’) the hacker comes for her is if the people are warned ahead of time long enough to force 7 to give up the info and then run to save her. It’s mentioned at some point that if the bodyguards aren’t enough, or if Seven’s protection is insufficient (it is) that the RFA members + MC could just live with Jumin because his place is literally the safest place in all of the RFA.

So he is NOT kidnapping her. He is protecting her. And the MC never tries to escape and is stopped by guards. Whenever she tries to ‘escape’ (BE3 BRE2) it’s always ‘without Jumin knowing so he can’t protest’.

NUMBER THREE: JUMIN IS NOT A CRAZY CONTROL FREAK. He is a control freak, but he’s not crazy possessive. Yoosung is, if any of them, the crazy possessive one. Jumin gets jealous, but he won’t go off on anyone (or the MC) for talking to other people. He doesn’t panic about someone stealing her away, he just chooses not to share pictures of her because he doesn’t think anyone needs to see her before the party. Before you go off about that, note how the MC could share pictures of herself any time and doesn’t. Never. Ever. If she had a problem with Jumin hiding what she looks like, why not share a selfie? Indeed, why not ever share one on any route?

Jumin is literally just learning to express himself and open up about his emotions/embrace them in his route. Freaking out at him about being too ‘creepy’ is the same as the RFA members making fun of him because he spilled his feelings about his father on the chat. He trusts the MC and is intimately close to her.

He muses about the things he wants, the things he likes, and part of that is the desire to control the woman he loves. He’s feeling it out, exploring things he’s never even considered before, and the MC is a confidante. The MC has the choice to tell him she doesn’t like it, or she can agree. He buys her clothes but remember she didn’t pack any, so the alternative would be forcing her to stay in her one outfit for days and nights. There really isn’t any way he controls her, and as we can see from his dialog choices (and BE2) he’s actually pretty whipped and is more likely to allow MC to control him than force her to obey him.

NUMBER. FOUR. THE MC ONLY STAYS AT HIS PLACE FOR LIKE THREE DAYS.

At most, Jumin was going to keep her until the party when things would somehow be safer (don’t ask me why, it just always is). It’s basically just  a weekend. She’s not stuck there forever, she’s just there for a few days while all hell is breaking loose outside. She’s hardly a captive.

NUMBER FIVE. The MC herself isn’t even really scared. The primary concerns in the route are that their behavior is inappropriate. Zen freaks out because the MC and Jumin might do things he disapproves of. Jaehee throws a fit because Jumin slacks off from work and they should ‘go out on dates first’ if they want to be a ‘real’ couple, MC and Seven are like “But MC has responsibilities that were arbitrarily and actually forcibly assigned to her and an apartment that’s sort of ‘hers’ which is actually unsecured and super dangerous, so that’s where she belongs!”

Who cares if two consenting adults have sex? Who cares if they choose not to follow normal dating procedure? That’s their concern, not their friends’. And why does it really matter so much that a party gets delayed or canceled when MC never had a choice to begin with? Why do people freak out because Jumin keeps her somewhere safe out of concern for her, but no one seems to care that MC was tricked into going into that apartment and then actually straight up forced through intimidation and the threat of imprisonment to be the party planner for a bunch of rich strange men she’s never met before?? (Try saying ‘no I wont’ to the RFA. Every chance you get. see what happens.)

If it doesn’t matter that MC is mostly fine with being with Jumin (or very fine with it in BE2), it doesn’t matter that MC suddenly decides the party thing is a SUPER COOL IDEA. Especially when the former poses exactly 0% danger to her, and the latter is actually extremely and actively endangering her life.

[sniperct]

Hey question, what's Spock's sacrifice gamble? I've never watched Star Trek so I have no idea what that means

Okay so (spoiler) Spock died in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

But before he died, he mind melded with Bones, transferring his Katra(his mind and soul) into one of his friends.Typically this is something done to preserve memories and etc and there are rituals and stuff involved and in the end it's likely that Spock's katra would have eventually been transferred to a family member(I forget the exact details).

Anyway, here's a key plot point.During the events of TWOK, something called the Genesis Device was detonated. Essentially, this device allowed for rapid terraforming of barren worlds. In this case it blew up in a nebula and formed a whole new planet.

The Enterprise was damaged during the battle and Spock sacrificed himself to repair the engines and allow the ship to escape that detonation, saving the lives of his friends and the crew. His body was later given a space burial in a photon torpedo, which landed on the new planet.

In Star Trek III, Kirk and Co hijack the now decommissioned Enterprise and take Bones to the genesis planet on the slim hope that they might find Spock. It turns out the planet restored Spock's body.

They retrieve him, fight some Klingons who kill Kirk's son(revealed in the previous movie), and bring the mindless Spock back to Vulcan to transfer his Katra into his body.(then Star Trek 4 picks up the last threads as the end of the trilogy lol)

TLDR: The spock gambit is sacrificing yourself but preserving your soul so that you live on and eventually get resurrected.

So Penny *checks notes* sacrificed herself but preserved her soul in a friend’s mind and it would actually be pretty easy to transfer that back into a new body

[child-of-lanvaldear]

👓☺🎧 [[i need subject ideas still lol]]

Modernize Me

👓   Education                      top 3 subjects, worst 3 subject. what was their ‘clique stereotype’?

Natalia’s best subjects are Biology, Foreign Language, and History. The three she struggles most with are Math, Art, and English.

Her ‘clique stereotype’ is definitely the one of ‘Little Ms. Perfect’. Straight A’s (even in the classes she has trouble with), Class President, Cheerleader, Yearbook Committee, voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’, Homecoming Queen, Prom Queen- the works. She makes it all look totally effortless, but she’s actually a ball of stress and nerves who barely sleeps and uses makeup to hide the dark circles under her eyes.

☺   Online Profile                      top five sites, example tweet, what would their tumblr be like?

Top five sites: Instagram, tumblr, twitter, NPR, Youtube/The Young Turks

example tweet: Anyone else going to Pride Day? #LoveWins

Natalia’s tumblr: Lots of social justice and feminism, interspersed with fashion, makeup/beauty, cute animals, and the occasional horror story. A good mix of original and reblogged content. She’s got quite a few followers, and occasionally gets hate (and/or actually screws up, but she does try to correct herself and learn) but she’s got it under control.

🎧   Gaming                     top 3 games, favourite game genre. are they any good? 

Super Smash Bros., Halo, and Mario Kart. Natalia has a knack for FPSs, but prefers games that are just for fun, and she while she doesn’t spend enough time (she doesn’t HAVE enough time) to be The Best, she can hold her own.

[frostedwheatleys]

Dory, Eric, Seven Dwarfs, Buzz

Dory: Something someone has told you that you can’t forget (two good things and one bad)

I’ll never forget Lyric telling me he was gay, I was so proud.

My parents once told me that no matter how hard it is with Dad being away, they’re not going to get divorced. I think of that a lot. 

Well, one time Kayleigh told me that I hatched from an egg.. and maybe I’m older but I still believed her.

Eric: Have you ever helped a stranger? What happened.

I helped this old man in the grocery store find his favorite brand of cereal! We found it and he went his own way, that’s it. 

Seven Dwarfs: 7 things you like in the people around you.

Positivity

Humor

Kindness

Understanding

A balance between talking/listening

Manners

Creativity 

Buzz: Your favourite fantasy world (aka Harry Potter, Star Wars), if any.

Lord of the Rings, that’d be so cool! 

[desiderii]

Finders Keepers

He sucked the dirt from the metal and spat, holding his prize up to the light to see what he had found. Silver and ceramic made him laugh and drop his head back onto the pillow of his lover’s ribs.

“What’s-?” Lazy, she only asked half the question. She sprawled content on their blanket, sun- and sex-warmed, her eyes closed against the dappled sunshine that came through the leaves above. Her fingers threaded his hair, and her nails scratched against his scalp to draw a contented hum from his throat.

“Have you ever seen Peter Pan?” he asked.

She cracked an eyelid at that, peering down at his upturned grin. “Read.”

“I know- I know, uncultured swine, me. Books superior and all that.” Unperturbed, he held up his thumb capped with the flat-topped cone of a decorative thimble. The glaze had cracked, sundering the blue vines and painted leaves into tiny, wobbly squares, but the metal still gleamed. “I have, however, seen the stage play, so I am perhaps not too far down on your list of possible summer flings?”

“Perhaps not.” Her expression softened, with nostalgia among other things. “A thimble.”

“A kiss.”

“Are you secretly a romantic?”

He gestured at the hill beyond them. At the sweet-smelling grass that had bruised beneath their footsteps as they’d climbed to their picnic tree. At the grazing horses that whickered greetings to passing riders and their mounts. At the far-distant city, a smudge on the horizon different only from a storm cloud in that it had grown no closer during their idyll. “Do you know how long it took me to find this place? A spreading oak a-hilltop, with gnarled bole and shade-perfect leaves?”

“Is that a quote?” She captured his hand, pulled it close to kiss the palm, the thimble. “Minutes at least.”

His smile turned inward. “Mere minutes, of course.”

Reaching for the thimble, she asked, “Is it for me?”

“The tree?”

“The kiss.” Her nail clicked against the metal. A light tap to indicate which kiss she meant.

“It’s your kiss,” he agreed easily.

Her eyebrows rose. “But you won’t give it to me.”

He turned his face from her to stare up at the branches. The leaves rustled and nearly covered his quiet admission. “I’m keeping every one of your kisses.”

The space between them grew, though neither of them moved. His gifted tree rained small twigs into their hair, upon their naked chests. He held her hand tight. She toyed with the lobe of his ear, traced the shell before she bent to speak so he would hear.

“You’ll see me again,” she said at last. “A promise I shall seal with a kiss.”

“Seal it with a thimble,” he said. “I gave you a tree.”  

She pulled him from where he lay to stretch out at her side. Pressing her lips to his, she murmured into their warmth. “I grant you both a thimble and a kiss.”

“And I decide which is which?” he asked when they broke apart.

“The kiss will last you longer, I think,” she said, plucking the notion from his thumb and smiling at his protest.

“That’s where you’re wrong,” he said, folding his hands over hers to reclaim his find, “And I wish you were never wrong, but I took more than few minutes to find this tree. Trust me when I say your thimble will outlast your kiss.”

[isitreallysodifficult-blog]

My Passions Are Odd Capitalization

I enjoyed reading your profile, 

Thought we should chat, see where things go. 

It would be great to get to know you. 

Tell me about your passions? 

I am very involved in Music and Art 

Any interesting stories?